Quote by Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke

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